The first edition of The VolleyBrains Weekly.

Let's start to sharpen our axes!

December 25, 2022

Merry Christmas!!

Welcome to The VolleyBrains Weekly, while Santa has been delivering presents, we're delivering powerful coaching content to all the coaches that were on the Nice list. Let's get this one started.

Coach Knipe setting the tone.

Your interactions about our sport with outsiders are really valuable.

As coach Knipe says; 'Nobody is going to tell our story for us'.

The perfect first post for 'The VolleyBrains Weekly'.

Greg Carvel's speech made us tear up! (twice)

In our video call with Terry Liskevych, Terry mentioned a great speech by the University of Massachusetts head coach Greg Carvel.

For our 'Euro readers', coach Carvel got the no name hockey team of UMass from worst in the country to a NCAA Championship in a period of 4 short seasons.

After Terry's Masterclass was posted I've had a handful of pro and college coaches reaching out, telling me that they loved this speech. You will too.

A must watch for every athlete, coach, teacher, parent....

Half empty or half full?

Translating quotes out of Italian into English is a chore, but here we go. 😅

Here is our favourite quote out of a TEDxTalk by VNL 2022 winner and current European champion Davide Mazzanti, head coach of the Italian women's national team.

"Opportunities often have a form and especially a taste that sometimes is not what we expect.I sometimes get labeled an optimist. Though I don't consider myself an optimist or as someone who sees the glass as being half full.For me the glass is not to be looked at, it solely exists to drink from.And if we get one of those hard-to-digest glasses, we have to plug our nose and still throw it down because today that's the only drink we'll get.And when we get to drink a very good chalice, we must be able to stay sober.And it is there and in that balance that we then find our way."

Davide Mazzanti

For the translated talk, head over here.

Our latest article: Practice videos by Lauren Bertolacci

One of the most exciting parts of VolleyBrains in the second part of 2022 and going into 2023 is being able to share what actually is happening in training gyms all over the world.

We have featured practice content from German's top team SC Potsdam with head coach Guillermo Naranjo Hernandez,

The newly crowned World Club Champion and currently the 'best team in the world' Sir Safety Perugia with Andrea Anastasi,

And yesterday we launched the training sessions of Swiss top team Viteos NUC with Australian head coach Lauren Bertolacci, go and check it out.

Where is 2023 going to take us?

Transfer portal madness, BIG10 build out, VolleyballWorld's roadmap, LOVB, Athlete's Unlimited and so on and so on...

Exciting times for our sport, let's see where it will all take us.

But let's never forget who it's all about...

Coach Rose's quotes all pack a nice punch. Expect more of these in our next editions.😊

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